Someone mentioned to me how all the apple trees would be crab apples unless we cloned and grafted other tree types onto them?? Idk if this is even right but can someone explain apple trees to me?? I did go apple picking and saw the stumps for the trees are different from the actual tree. Also what is a crab apple? I have questions. Thanks!! Hahaha
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Crab apples are relatives of orchard apples, with smaller fruit that’s often sour. They’re sometimes used in cooking or preserves but not often eaten raw.
Apples, like people, get a mix of genetics from the male and female parent. They’re not self pollinating, so the genetics come from two different trees. Thus the seeds in an apple don’t have the same genetics as the flesh of the apple. So grafting makes a clone, generically identical to the source, but using seeds doesn’t.
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